Being in America-Part I
I got a really funny forward regarding America not knowing what "the rest of the world" means.
I think that is 100% correct accounting for the fact that even some Indians forget India when they come here.
I remember fighting for a pot of water during my board exams near the metro water lorry near my house in madras and now I see sprinklers running even when it is raining near my house here.
Of course, one can not help it, if there is lots of water. All the same, I was wondering how one part of the world thinks there is no other parts existing in this world. I mean, I can not be writing all kinds of facts that I know of, here, then it might get too personal and it’s not needed as long as the meaning is conveyed.
I will just write some common things I notice here and of course take it with a pinch of humour if you like America and as a sad state of affair if you hate America. It’s left in your hands.
I had an Indian friend here complaining about the gasoline price increasing up to a dollar per gallon and there was one funny board in a gasoline station, which just stated the price as "LOL" and compare that to the increase in petrol in India, I guess it is around 10 rupees per liter, so in turn around an increase of 35 rupees per gallon and compare it against the average salary, the average salary here is say 5000 dollars per month and in India it is around 30,000 rupees, now do the math. Clearly India is suffering much more than America but Americans and Indian Americans cry here.
I found another funny thing, if you go to a restaurant in here, you can always forget about cooking for the next day where as in India, you need to order at least two dishes to keep you from getting hungry if you visit a hotel in India. Some restaurants here bring in their "TO-GO' boxes even before we finish eating, because they know. How can there be no food shortage?, also in most of the places it is always "All you can eat buffets", they keep this confidently because, everybody eats too much so the distinction of what is "too much " thins off, no hotel owner in India will dare keep buffet in this scale, if they do they will go bankrupt very soon because people are underfed there.
The only good thing that I can never be sarcastic about is cleanliness here and if ever you find some place thrashed with waste, be assured it is an Indian who has done it. I am saying this, not to make anyone feel bad but I felt bad when I saw one fellow Indian here who kept thrashing in anyplace and everyplace he went, worst of all he talked of politically correct things before I saw him doing this , something like "Indians are keeping their country dirty”,” Indians are not ethically good" and many things like that and when I asked him why he talked like a really good person, he replies that is what everyone does, I was really p***** off hearing that. I can just say this, Indians are hypocritical, at least most of them are, if you are exception, I am happy for you.
These people think America is cool because they can ride great cars, speed on roads, go to gymn, go to LV and get salary in dollars. They don’t even think that they can do their bit in their county to make it cool too.
I understand that somethings we can not change easily (as a common person) like quota system, inflation, exchange rate etc but at least you can keep your country clean. If educated people who come to America do this, not just to India but to America as well, then what will Americans think about us? If I were an American, even I would say the same things that they say to us.
I know not many people will read this but all the same if I meet anyone like that one hypocritical person, I will give a piece of my mind even if it means they wont change or they wont be friends with me again, it is better to be truthful than hypocritical. As I said in one of my "ramblings" before, somethings have become default because we think we can not change and there is no use just talking if you can not be what you are talking. It is injustice, not just to this great world you are born into and but also to yourself.
I read somewhere, if Earth is just a speck in this universe, we are not even visible in it and yet we destroy it before we go.
I got a really funny forward regarding America not knowing what "the rest of the world" means.
I think that is 100% correct accounting for the fact that even some Indians forget India when they come here.
I remember fighting for a pot of water during my board exams near the metro water lorry near my house in madras and now I see sprinklers running even when it is raining near my house here.
Of course, one can not help it, if there is lots of water. All the same, I was wondering how one part of the world thinks there is no other parts existing in this world. I mean, I can not be writing all kinds of facts that I know of, here, then it might get too personal and it’s not needed as long as the meaning is conveyed.
I will just write some common things I notice here and of course take it with a pinch of humour if you like America and as a sad state of affair if you hate America. It’s left in your hands.
I had an Indian friend here complaining about the gasoline price increasing up to a dollar per gallon and there was one funny board in a gasoline station, which just stated the price as "LOL" and compare that to the increase in petrol in India, I guess it is around 10 rupees per liter, so in turn around an increase of 35 rupees per gallon and compare it against the average salary, the average salary here is say 5000 dollars per month and in India it is around 30,000 rupees, now do the math. Clearly India is suffering much more than America but Americans and Indian Americans cry here.
I found another funny thing, if you go to a restaurant in here, you can always forget about cooking for the next day where as in India, you need to order at least two dishes to keep you from getting hungry if you visit a hotel in India. Some restaurants here bring in their "TO-GO' boxes even before we finish eating, because they know. How can there be no food shortage?, also in most of the places it is always "All you can eat buffets", they keep this confidently because, everybody eats too much so the distinction of what is "too much " thins off, no hotel owner in India will dare keep buffet in this scale, if they do they will go bankrupt very soon because people are underfed there.
The only good thing that I can never be sarcastic about is cleanliness here and if ever you find some place thrashed with waste, be assured it is an Indian who has done it. I am saying this, not to make anyone feel bad but I felt bad when I saw one fellow Indian here who kept thrashing in anyplace and everyplace he went, worst of all he talked of politically correct things before I saw him doing this , something like "Indians are keeping their country dirty”,” Indians are not ethically good" and many things like that and when I asked him why he talked like a really good person, he replies that is what everyone does, I was really p***** off hearing that. I can just say this, Indians are hypocritical, at least most of them are, if you are exception, I am happy for you.
These people think America is cool because they can ride great cars, speed on roads, go to gymn, go to LV and get salary in dollars. They don’t even think that they can do their bit in their county to make it cool too.
I understand that somethings we can not change easily (as a common person) like quota system, inflation, exchange rate etc but at least you can keep your country clean. If educated people who come to America do this, not just to India but to America as well, then what will Americans think about us? If I were an American, even I would say the same things that they say to us.
I know not many people will read this but all the same if I meet anyone like that one hypocritical person, I will give a piece of my mind even if it means they wont change or they wont be friends with me again, it is better to be truthful than hypocritical. As I said in one of my "ramblings" before, somethings have become default because we think we can not change and there is no use just talking if you can not be what you are talking. It is injustice, not just to this great world you are born into and but also to yourself.
I read somewhere, if Earth is just a speck in this universe, we are not even visible in it and yet we destroy it before we go.
Comments
Nice post. You seem to be on a "Arise & Awake India" crusade. Good luck.